HC Deb 08 November 2001 vol 374 cc441-2

Amendments made: No. 4, in page 3, line 35, leave out from "of' to end of line 40 and insert— 'technical assistance controls in relation to technical assistance of any description.

(2) For this purpose— technical assistance controls", in relation to any technical assistance, means the prohibition or regulation of participation in the provision outside the United Kingdom of that technical assistance; and technical assistance" means services which are provided or used, or which are capable of being used, in connection with the development, production or use of any goods or technology.

(2A) Technical assistance may be described in the order wholly or partly by reference to the uses to which it (or the goods or technology in question) may be put.

(2B) The power to impose technical assistance controls—

  1. (a) shall only be exercised for the purpose of imposing controls corresponding to or connected with—
    1. (i) any export controls or transfer controls imposed under section 1 or 2; or
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    3. (ii) any controls imposed by a directly applicable Community provision on the exportation of goods or the transfer of technology; and
  2. (b) is subject to section (General restriction on purposes of control orders).'.

No. 5, in page 4, line 3, leave out from "of' to end of line 4 and insert "technical assistance".— [Nigel Griffiths.]

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